Friday, 22 April 2016

No to Sanctions! No to War!

By New Worker
correspondent

London
comrades were outside the American embassy on Saturday 5th March to protest against US
imperialism’s war-games in south Korea and the latest tranche of sanctions
imposed on Democratic Korea at the United Nations.

New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks
joined comrades and friends protesting outside the US embassy in Grosvenor
Square against the “Foal Eagle” and “Key Resolve” drills that have heightened
tension on the divided Korean peninsula at a picketcalled by the UK Korean Friendship
Association.

Taking
the microphone, KFA chair Dermot Hudson denounced the latest imperialist
provocations against the homeland of Juché saying: "The US imperialist
aggressors and the south Korean fascist puppets will begin the Foal Eagle and
Key Resolve military exercises in less than a week’s time on the 7th March and
these will run until the 30thApril, that is nearly 2 months. The exercises are
unprecedented in scale and intensity.

“The
exercises will involve 15,000 US troops , that is 3 times the usual number. The
US imperialist forces' nuclear-powered submarine North Carolina has already entered Pusan Port and F-22A Stealth
fighter-bombers have been deployed in the Osan air force base. The exercises
will include so-called "beheading operations" aimed at the physical
liquidation of the DPRK supreme leadership and destruction of nuclear and
rocket bases of the DPRK.

“These
exercises come at a time when the US imperialists , south Korean puppets and
world reactionaries have run amok in their efforts to stifle Korean-style
socialism by means of 'additional UNSC sanctions' and the so-called' human
rights ' campaign. The US imperialists and their lackeys throughout the world
have unfairly and hypocritically taken issue with the legitimate satellite
launch of the DPRK and the self-defensive H bomb test .

“Foal
Eagle and Key Resolve are neither "defensive " nor 'routine' as
claimed . They include detailed plans for the rehearsal and invasion of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea of Korea. It is a nonsensical sophistry
to assert that they are "routine ". The analogy can be used of a fire
drill in an office building or factory , these are not held for the sake of
"routine" but as a practice for the real thing . It is the same with
"Foal Eagle " and "Key Resolve.

“We
call for the immediate cancellation of Foal Eagle and Key Resolve and the
unconditional withdrawal of US troops from Korea . Moreover a broad labour
movement and peace movement campaign must be mounted against Foal Eagle and Key
Resolve. Foal and Key Resolve must be stopped in their tracks."

Comrades
held up DPRK flags, and displayed the large KFA banner that always accompanies
these demonstrations while others maintained a constant commentary on the
microphone throughout the afternoon.